UCI research finds parents’ unpredictable behavior may impair optimal brain circuit formation
Disrupted development increases vulnerability to mental illness, substance abuse
Disrupted development increases vulnerability to mental illness, substance abuse
As UC Irvine turns 50, the campus community celebrates a ‘bright past’ while anticipating a ‘brilliant future’
Bruce McNaughton, one of the foremost experts on the brain mechanisms underlying memory storage and cognition, has joined the UC Irvine School of Biological Sciences as a Distinguished Professor of neurobiology & behavior.
A drug in development to treat cancer could help prevent relapse behavior in people trying to overcome an addiction to cocaine, according to a new study by UC Irvine neuroscientists.
Christie Fowler, UCI assistant professor of neurobiology & behavior, is one of six scientists to receive an Avenir Award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Michael Yassa, assistant professor of neurobiology & behavior, and his team of scientists found that caffeine has a positive effect on long-term memory in humans. Their research, published Jan. 12 in the journal Nature Neuroscience, shows that caffeine enhances certain memories for up to 24 hours after it is consumed.
Sunil Gandhi, assistant professor of neurobiology & behavior at UC Irvine, was recently named one of 15 Searle Scholars for 2013.
Sunil Gandhi, assistant professor of neurobiology & behavior at UC Irvine, was recently named one of 15 Searle Scholars for 2013.
Three departments – developmental & cell biology, neurobiology & behavior and ecology & evolutionary biology – receive funding for 12 three-year graduate fellowships.
UCI Distinguished Professor of neurobiology & behavior garners the $25,000 Ralph W. Gerard Prize for outstanding contributions to the field.